Anyone else remember netcom.com? [1] When I finished college in 1989 I moved to Silicon Valley and found work. I sorely missed the Internet access I had enjoy

Anyone else remember netcom.com? [1] When I finished college in 1989 I moved to Silicon Valley and found work. I sorely missed the Internet access I had enjoyed at the University. About a year later I heard about a dial up system called Netcom and immediately signed up. They offered email, internet news (NNTP), and even command line access. Wonderful! One story I can recall: The system grew until netcom consisted of 15 or 20 Sun OS 4.x servers. One night a user wrote a shell script to poll all the servers, locate the server with the lightest load, and then log into that system. They shared the script and within hours many users were running the script in their login file. Since there was no check to see if the script was already in use in that session, long chains of user logins bounced around the systems resulting in an early DDOS shutdown. Good times, until about 2000 when the buyers of Netcom eventually shut down shell account service [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcom_%28United_States%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcom_%28United_States%29 [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/technology/2000/10/06/the-last-days-of-netcom/2511f750-1371-46bb-a21e-05e9ac342469/?noredirect=on https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/technology/2...